Hollow Other Mena 5 is a light, narrow, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, album art, book covers, hand-drawn, quirky, playful, offbeat, sketchy, handmade feel, display impact, illustrative texture, quirky tone, informal voice, outlined, wiry, irregular, whimsical, animated.
A wiry, hand-drawn display face built from open, outlined strokes with irregular internal notches and occasional filled-in accents. The drawing shows a jittery pen-like contour, uneven stroke joins, and inconsistent edge tension that creates an intentionally rough, sketched rhythm. Counters are often formed by the outline itself, with cutouts and breaks that vary from glyph to glyph, giving the alphabet an organic, slightly improvised feel while remaining broadly legible.
This font suits display roles where texture and personality are an asset—posters, headlines, packaging, album artwork, and illustrated book covers. It can also work for short captions or pull quotes when a casual, handmade voice is desired and the setting size is generous.
The overall tone is playful and slightly eccentric, like lettering from a doodled poster or a quirky comic caption. The lively outlines and uneven details add a sense of motion and personality, leaning more toward charm and humor than refinement or restraint.
The design appears intended to mimic spontaneous hand lettering with a hollow, cutout-driven construction, prioritizing character and visual texture over typographic regularity. Its irregular outlines and internal interruptions read as deliberate stylistic devices to create a distinctive, illustrative presence in titles and branding.
Spacing and glyph shapes feel purposefully non-uniform, with noticeable variation in how much black detail appears inside different letters and digits. The outlines stay visually prominent at display sizes, while the fine, broken contours suggest it will look best when allowed room to breathe rather than in dense text settings.